Treehugger Tuesday

Earth Liberation Front documentary could win an Oscar

From the New York Times:

December 13, 2011, 2:34 pm
If a Tree Falls, Can it Win an Oscar?
By ANDREW C. REVKIN

This fall, I was fortunate to attend a screening of “If a Tree Falls — A Story of the Earth Liberation Front,” an extraordinary documentary by the brilliant young filmmakers Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman that explores the prosecution of members of the Earth Liberation Front for a series of costly arson fires. The trailers and some descriptions of the film made me a bit concerned that it would be a one-sided depiction of environmental heroes going to extremes. It was nothing of the kind.

Read the entire review here.